Re: DebConf16 Call for Proposals deadline extended to 15 May 2016

2016-05-11 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Dimitri On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:17:49PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Would there be enough interest for s390x BoF session and/or mini-track > with talks at Debconf 2016? I won't attend this years Debconf. But please feal free. Regards, Bastian -- Yes, it is written. Good shall a

Re: libsecret porting for s390x

2016-07-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:12:31PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I'd like to ask for your help with looking at the problems building > libsecret on s390x. It's currently the only (release-)architecture > not building and blocking testing migration for a long time. :( What was the result of yo

Re: Bug##845081: wmbiff FTBFS on s390x: test failure

2016-11-24 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Doug On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 12:46:27PM -0500, Doug Torrance wrote: > > Error connecting: Invalid argument > > connect(0.0.3.255:-7907) failed: Invalid argument I would start here. The IP/port information is converted incorrectly. I assume it's this function: | static int ipv4_sock_connect(s

Re: Bug#845081: Bug##845081: wmbiff FTBFS on s390x: test failure

2016-12-02 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Doug On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 09:37:23AM -0500, Doug Torrance wrote: > Thanks for your reply! > I've changed all the shorts to uint16_t's -- hopefully this works! You know, Debian actually has a s390x porter machine. You can use it to test such problems. Regards, Bastian -- Actual war is a

Re: Bug#845081: Bug##845081: wmbiff FTBFS on s390x: test failure

2016-12-02 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Doug On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:44:05AM -0500, Doug Torrance wrote: > On 12/02/2016 09:26 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > >You know, Debian actually has a s390x porter machine. You can use it to > >test such problems. > Yeah, I've used porterboxes in the past. I'

Re: Linker error "relocati,on truncated to fit"

2017-06-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:38:44AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > I am slowly re-starting the packaging of IRAF (still not officially > announced yet). When porting to s390x, I however run into a strange > error: IRAF needs a small piece of assembler code (kind-of longjump for > Fortan), which John

Re: Bug#886294: transition: nodejs

2018-01-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 01:24:06PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Our baseline is z10, and z196 is newer. So if upstream now requires z196, we > have three options: > > - Revert / fix that so upstream works with z10 again > - Remove nodejs from s390x > - Bump our baseline > > See go and r

Re: Archiving the attic folders from d-i for ports

2018-04-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:37:25AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since there are still some repositories that we need for debian-ports > in the attic, I was wondering whether we should take care of the > attic stuff and move it over to salsa or github. Could you show a list? Just migr

Re: Strange build issue on for bart affecting testing migration

2020-09-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 11:38:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > The package has built before and the latest changes are: > Am I > missing something? It built months before, with a lot of other changes surrounding it. E.g. glibc 2.

Re: debian 9 s390 security updates

2020-10-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 11:57:10AM +0200, Konstantin Maksimov wrote: > Are there any plans to add security updates for debian 9 for s390? > http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/stretch/updates/main No. Debian 9 reached it's EOL date in july. Debian LTS currently support Stretch, but

Re: Bug#1076309: [s390x] lots of "User process fault: interruption code XXXX"

2024-07-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 08:06:46AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > However, that doesn't seem to work on our s390x host as it seems to freeze > instead. Is this something known? Something I'm doing wrong (E.g. these > options behaving differently on s390x)? Is this a s390x kernel bug? This now points

Re: Installation of sarge on hercules

2005-01-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 01:31:32AM +0100, Ivan Warren wrote: > Maybe you should try the latest 3.02 hercules version.. (which > incidently also performs *much* better than 3.01 performance wise - a > non-negligeable point when talking about architecture emulators). I never saw this problem in z/VM

Re: Installation of sarge on hercules

2005-02-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Guenther Bergmann wrote: > i've tried to install sarge on hercules, but i am struggeling with > the installer. > I can't see what is wrong here. Which version of hercules? Bastian -- Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved. -- T

Re: buggy libwxgtk2.4-dev ?

2005-02-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:56:41PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > However it returns 2.5.3 version for configure scripts, and causes errors > at some later part of build. Hmm, the configure checks for >= 2.4.0, why does it fail with the announced 2.5.3? > Seems that s390's libwxgtk2.4-d

Re: BUG: In debian installer

2005-02-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:28:35AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-2-s390. > Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-2-s390 (from > /kernel-image-2.6.8-2-s390_2.6.8-5_s390.deb) ... D-I does not support installation with 2.6 yet, don't even try it.

Re: BUG: In debian installer

2005-02-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:34:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Did you boot the installer with the 2.4.27 kernel? s390 only support 2.4.27. > If so, you were possibly bitten by a bug that was identified (for powerpc) > and solved. The bug was that the decision whether or not an initrd is > needed

Re: Booting doesn't: ?

2005-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:51:12PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > I've been installing Sarge RC2 on my Hercules (3.01). RC2 will not install the right kernel since the package sync for RC3. This is a known but yet unfixed problem. Bastian -- The idea of male and female are universal constants

Re: fityk compilation problem on s390 buildd

2005-03-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 06:36:29PM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > I am at a loss to figure out what might be wrong here so I can't even file > a bug. It looks like on the s390 there is a version of wxWindows 2.5 > which is being used instead of the current Debian version 2.4. wxWindows always u

Re: s390 binNMUs needed: emifreq-applet 0.17-2, ximian-connector 2.0.3-1

2005-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:56:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Can someone do a recompile binNMU of these > packages for s390, to spare the trouble of rebuilding on all architectures? The recompiles are on my todo. Bastian -- Live long and prosper.

Re: Timer patch

2002-09-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:43:51AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Has anyone applied the timer patch from developer works to "woody" > yet? Getting that on is one of the reasons I want to get to kernel > version 2.4.17. > How about the other patches from the "May 2002 stream"? i make a new patch fro

Re: Timer patch

2002-09-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 01:18:13PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Thanks, but I am not up to the s390x yet. > I am still running in a 32-bit world! the patch is the same for 31 and 64 bit. bastian -- War isn't a good life, but it's life. -- Kirk, "A Private Little War", stardate 4

s390x status

2002-10-26 Thread Bastian Blank
hi folks i'm currently working on a s390x port of debian. now we are able to release them, but the question is, do we need them? or should we use a 64 bit kernel with a 31 bit userland like sparc does. bastian -- Bones: "The man's DEAD, Jim!" pgpVaKrlTggb6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2 package(s) to rebuild on s390/stable

2002-11-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:51:05AM -0500, Martin Schulze wrote: > These packages have to be rebuilt for stable on s390 in order to let > the packages go into 3.0r1. because noone is available i will rebuild this packages now. bastian -- pgpyW5W1yVVGb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: raptor

2002-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:17:53PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > It's missing bison, flex, and libpam0g-dev that I need and I guess that with > those missing there are probably others as well... where so you need this packages? | Sorry, bison is already the newest version. | Sorry, flex is alread

Re: raptor

2002-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 06:53:42PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > In the main root of raptor.debian.org. > Or am I supposed to do all development in chroot's? the main root is a little bit problematic. i want to move the machine to a 64bit kernel. it needs new modutils and i don't want to rebuild a

Re: Fwd: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS

2002-12-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 09:30:58PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: [...] i try to compile the test program. first it isn't c, so i need to fix it. i compile it with gcc 3.2 and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. it seems to work fine. | $ ./test ./test1 1000 | Seeking to 1000 | $ ls -al test1 |

Re: openoffice and biarch toolchain now available in unstable

2002-12-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:48:55AM +0100, Gerhard Tonn wrote: > The complete toolchain, gcc-3.2, binutils and glibc, has been enabled for > biarch support recently. This means that you can compile and link 64 bit > applications in unstable using the -m64 flag. As soon as the modutils are > also

Re: 64bit debian

2003-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:27:11PM +0200, Kasza Karoly wrote: > My question is: Is it possible to run debian in 64 bit mode? > If it is, does 64bit deb packages exists? 64bit glibc packages and 64bit compilers exists but no 64bit kernel. > Or do you plan

Re: [b...@fs.tum.de: Bug#210307: ncurses doesn't build on s390]

2003-09-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:32:25PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Ncurses now tries to build a 64-bit library. But it looks like the > S/390 build daemon can't _run_ 64-bit binaries? Do I need to make it > do this as a cross-compile instead? none of the s390 autobuilders run 64bit kernels. >

Re: please build XFree86 4.3.0 for experimental

2003-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:50:43AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > * s390 has never tried to build XFree86 4.3.0 as far as I can tell. > > Bastian Blank attempted several times, got tripped up by the DRI foolery and > other NOT_BUILDING_XF86_SERVER fun, and ended up giving up.

Re: linux 2.6

2003-10-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:04:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Well, the kernel itself works rather well, but setting up network devices > and some other stuff is not as easy as it should be. There are also a few > stability problems under extreme loads and you can expect a higher memory > usage

Re: please build XFree86 4.3.0 for experimental

2003-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:19:42AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > After the s390-specific commits I made today, Bastian seems to have had > a successful build of a (modified) 4.3.0-0pre1v3. no, it failes on usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.dps (xfree86-common) bastian -- The heart is not a logica

Re: Adding QDIO support to an existing Debian 3.0 System

2003-12-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:16:09PM -0500, Rodney S. Clayton wrote: > I have a running Debian s/390 system that is using VCTCA's for > connectivity. I would like to download the QDIO module and add this kind > of NIC. > > I have been unable to fine the driver for Debian or the directions for > sett

Re: looking for s390 access for kdebase debugging

2004-02-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:34:06AM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > I am trying to trace the kdebase build failure a little more, > but I would need a s390 chroot with kdebase build depends > installed (apt-get build-dep kdebase). Is this possible to > arrange? Try raptor.d.o. Bastian -- The idea o

Re: Kernel patches to 2.4.21

2004-02-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:48:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://www.homerow.net/files/linux-2.4.19-fix-install.diff > > Fixes the Makefile for to install kerntypes if you built it, which might > > be useful to some people. > I think this does not work together with /sbin/installkernel

Re: Kernel patches to 2.4.21

2004-02-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:17:02PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: > http://www.homerow.net/files/linux-2.4.19.vmparms.diff > http://www.homerow.net/files/linux-2.4.19.toupper.diff I add this patches to the repository. It is reachable via http://raptor.debian.org/svn/s390. Bastian -- Military secre

unofficial linux 2.4.25 patch

2004-02-20 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks As IBM don't release patches for not-so-broken kernels, both holes in plain 2.4.21 seems to be exploitable on s390, I tried to merge the hole patch into 2.4.25. It works fine with vm minidiscs and QDIO Guest LANs. http://raptor.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.4.25-s390-unofficial.diff.bz2 Bas

Re: Latest kernel patch that went in?

2004-02-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:29:43AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: > I'm asking, because I'm *hoping* it's the xip2fs patch. No, it was the include of the fix for the last kernel bug, as the 2.4.21 sources are not yet fixed, i prepare the upload of corresponding kernel images. > If not, I'd like to r

Re: possible MIAs/ proposed forced orphanings

2004-02-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:41:28PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Are those packages needed? Can someone co-maintain them? They are horrible outdated but needed until the new packages are accepted. Bastian -- Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge.

Bug#236216: kernel-patch-2.4.21-s390 - linux-2.4.21-vmparms breaks ipl from reader

2004-03-04 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: kernel-patch-2.4.21-s390 Version: 2.4.21.10-3 Severity: grave linux-2.4.21-vmparms.diff breaks ipl from reader. Bastian -- Hailing frequencies open, Captain. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

kernel images with initrd and 64bit

2004-03-06 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I just sent a patch to add DASD support to initrd-tools. This makes it possible to use initrd kernels and boot from ZFCP. Also I finaly send a patch for kernel-package to build 64bit kernels. The next kernel images may enable both, initrd and 64bit kernels. Bastian -- But Captain --

Debian-Installer for s/390 status

2004-03-17 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks s390 was not released as part of beta3. The reason is easy: there is no working partitioner because anything in d-i relays on the ability of parted to read the disklabel. The remain is easy - network device support for chandev is working except iucv. - dasd support seems to work. What n

Kernel images

2004-04-25 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I'm currently cleaning up the kernel image mess in unstable. I uploaded a 2.4.26 image today and try to build some 2.6 images next week. This 2.4.26 includes anything up to patchlevel 12 of the 2.4.21 release. Sarge will be released with >= 2.4.26 if we finish d-i until that time. Bastia

Bug#245841: Remove s390 kernel packages

2004-04-25 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: ftp.debian.org Version: N/V Please remove the following s390 kernel patch and images packages from unstable: * kernel-patch-2.4.19-s390 * kernel-image-2.4.17-s390 * kernel-image-2.4.19-s390 Bastian -- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardat

Re: IPL probelm with Hercules

2004-08-10 Thread Bastian Blank
Try: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:28:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >>> debian31.tdf > @TDF > /daten/hercules/kernel31.debian fixed recsize 1024 > /daten/hercules/parmfile31.debian fixed recsize 1024 > /daten/hercules/initrd31.debian fixed recsize 1024 TM TM > EOT Bastian -- "Beaut

linux 2.4.27 for s390

2004-08-17 Thread Bastian Blank
I released linux 2.4.27 for s390. The uploaded packages are available from http://raptor.debian.org/kernel/debian/. Please test them as we want to release sarg with 2.4.27. Bastian -- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not stopped. -- Spock, "Day of

linux 2.6.8 for s390

2004-08-18 Thread Bastian Blank
The linux 2.6.8 kernel image for s390 got accepted. This images are built with initrd enabled. This makes it possible to IPL via zfcp but you have to specify the options for dasd and/or zfcp in /etc/modprobe.d. Also there is currently nothing to configure the network devices via sysfs, this have

problems with s390 release

2004-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
I just found a serious problem with woody-sarge upgrades on s390. zipl from s390-utils 1.3.1 uses an ioctl which was introduced somewhere after patch 10 for 2.4.21 (it works properly with debian 2.4.27 which is based on patch 15). The complete error is: | unknown ioctl: 1268 | Error: Could no

Re: problems with s390 release

2004-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:01:45PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > I just found a serious problem with woody-sarge upgrades on s390. This mail is void, it works with 2.4.17 out of the archive but not with my test 2.4.21. Bastian -- No one wants war. -- Kirk, "Errand

Re: problems with s390 release

2004-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 11:45:19PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Samstag, 11. September 2004 23:25, Bastian Blank wrote: > > This mail is void, it works with 2.4.17 out of the archive but not with > > my test 2.4.21. > Great, I was getting really worried and have already

Re: 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 : Problems IPLing both s390 & s390x under hercules

2004-09-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:10:27PM +0200, Ivan Warren wrote: > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 8k freed > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > Add devfs=mount to the kernel command line. Since 2.4.27 devfs is not longer mounted by default. >

Re: 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 : Problems IPLing both s390 & s390x under hercules

2004-09-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:09:06PM +0200, Ivan Warren wrote: > Now with 2.6, my CTC pair is no longer handled by the ctc module... At one > point I suspected it was because I was emulating a P390 CTC (Cutype=3088/08 > Devtype=3088/01) so I changed it to a rather more conventional CTC hookup > (Cuty

Re: Can no longer compile to s390x

2004-09-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 05:30:42PM +0200, Ivan Warren wrote: > gcc-3.4 -m64 foo.c -o foo > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s_64 > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > Note : libc6-s390x and libc6-s390x-dev are installed. Install lib64gcc1. Bastian -- No one can guarantee the actions of another.

Re: Installing Debian S/390 on Hercules problems.

2004-11-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 02:28:10PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote: > Any ideas? Use a new version of the installer. Bastian -- There are certain things men must do to remain men. -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4929.4 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Future of s390 port

2005-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:25:55PM +0200, Gerhard Tonn wrote: > Due to lack of time I am not able to do the s390 porting work anymore. I > am looking for someone > who is interested to take over the s390 port. I'm interrested in taking over the s390 port. Bastian -- The best diplomat I know is

Re: attention to bug 321435

2005-09-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:33:09AM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: > It's not clear to me that the buildd > maintainer's duties exactly are, or, critically, how much time per > week it takes. I'm able to handle the buildds. I already did that some time ago. Bastian

Requalification of s390 for etch

2005-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I've started a wiki page to start collecting info for the s390 requalification for etch: http://wiki.debian.org/s390EtchReleaseRecertification

Re: Requalification of s390 for etch

2005-10-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:07:38PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Actually, this should be easy. You probably need only one or two examples > of production installations to have hundreds of users... I know about BfF (Bundesamt für Finanzen). About 150 Guests on two machines with sarge and 1500 users.

Re: Mozart FTBFS (#332630)

2005-10-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:14:28PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote: > The first file we try to compile is > giving a dynamic type error. Since this works successfully on > (nearly) all other platforms I am thinking the emulator must be > corrupt. It is not built on powerpc,

Re: Mozart FTBFS (#332630)

2005-10-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > I am seeing similar issues on m68k, which I have access to but > > progress is slow (e.g. package builds fine with gcc 3.3 but fails with > > most recent gcc 4.x). > Ah, that looks like problems with undefi

Re: htp segmentation fault

2005-10-11 Thread Bastian Blank
angelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +htp (1.15-2.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Don't use va_list more than once. + + -- Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 11 Oct 2005 07:22:00 + + htp (1.15-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed memory problems in s390 --- htp-

Re: s390 buildd problems for glibc

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > What kernel is the build daemon running? Does it have threading > problems? I don't think glibc 2.3.5 has ever successfully autobuilt on > s390. It was built on debian01 which runs 2.6.11. Bastian -- Youth doesn't excuse eve

Re: s390 buildd problems for glibc

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:04:45PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:44:40PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > What kernel is the build daemon running? Does it have threading > &

etch/s390 TODO

2005-11-18 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks As s390 is currently not in a good shape, I tried to produce a list of things which needs to be done for a possible etch release of this architecture. Please provide some feedback. Hardware configuration == In linux 2.6, the complete hardware configuration on s390 is

Re: etch/s390 TODO

2005-11-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:12:51PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I disabled the dasd patch in parted 1.6.23, because it didn't apply cleanly, > and there where some changes which made it non-trivial for me to fix it, i > asked you on irc to look at it, and think i also mailed here, but nothing > happ

Re: Kernel 2.6

2005-12-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:53:54PM -0300, Jerônimo Bezerra wrote: > I am Jeronimo and I work at one University in Brazil and here we have a > S/390. We installed the Debian Woody 3.0 some time ago, and now we have > make a another installation with Sarge 3.1, and if possible, using a > kernel 2.6.

RFH - Debian/S390

2006-01-08 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I wrote a TODO[1] and RfC for a possible etch release of the s390 port about 2 months ago, and did not get any usefull reply. As I'm the last person working on the core (and lack of time), there is a large need for help. The main problems are currently hardware configuration and debian-i

s390 hardware config

2006-01-27 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I finaly finished a rudimentary hardware configuration. It have some similarities with the redhat and suse sysconfig. (This was the simplest schema I found.) You can find the sources via https://lophos.multibuild.org/svn/sysconfig/trunk. It currently lacks documentation, but the importa

Re: RFH - Debian/S390

2006-02-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:13:03AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > - switch to 2.6 for installations > If I understand Bastian correctly this mainly requires automatic > configuration. I think he started that with his last s390-tools upload. > dasd configuration support is still missing in that IIU

Re: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:13:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Only problem was that the network interface did not come up. Trying to > manually start it resulted in: You need a 2.6.16-rc5 kernel and sysconfig-hardware. The new kernel properly loads the network modules, the later is used to config

Re: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:23:40PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I see that the experimental kernel image does not depend on > sysconfig-hardware. Should it (to ensure that users upgrading from Sarge > will have it installed)? Hmm. It is no dependency as the kernel can work without. Also it needs a

Re: Bug#340508: missing modules on s390/s390x

2006-03-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:33:59PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hmm. It is no dependency as the kernel can work without. Also it needs a > converter for chandev to the new config format. Which will only work automaticaly in the easiest config: only one device/type as there is not long

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:38:05PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I've not been able get udev to set up the hardware though. > I've created a file '/etc/sysconfig/hardware/config-ccw-0.0.0a00' with: >CCWGROUP_CHANS=(0.0.0a00 0.0.0a01) > but that does not seem to do anything. Hmm, I think I know the

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:40:46PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I guess you mean that ctc will be loaded as part of the processing of > /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0a00 so loading it "manually" in /etc/modules is > no longer needed? Exactly. But there is another problem left: A race condition happens

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:38:05PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I now have 2.6.16 booting nicely on hercules and can get the net up by: >echo "0.0.0a00,0.0.0a01" >/sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/ctc/group >echo "1" >/sys/bus/ccwgroup/devices/0.0.0a00/online Can you please run: # udevcontrol log_pri

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:23:46PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > # echo /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0a00/uevent Should be > # echo > /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0a00/uevent Bastian -- It would be illogical to kill without reason. -- Spock, "Journey to Babel&quo

Re: s390 hardware config

2006-03-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:35:24PM -0600, Stephen Frazier wrote: > It would seem that for a "hot plug" CTC device. You would set it up to > test for the presence of the other one of the pair. If they are not both > present then dont do anything. Thus in your example when 0A00 became > available

Re: Bug#373945: Successful 2.6 based installation on s/390 (hercules) - some issues

2006-06-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:39:00PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > * Network configuration (CTC) > Works fine. > Wishlist: > - Maybe we should remove the selected read device from the list when > asking for the write device Hmm, makes sense. > - Maybe we could suggest default values (first available

Re: xorg-server FTBFS under S390 with error Unrecognized opcode: `sti'

2006-09-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 09:44:39PM -0400, José Parrella wrote: > a) Current versions of binutils and gcc in Sid interoperate badly (which > seems possible and actually other -already solved- bugs give hints on > this direction, like #376832) Nope, this was s390x specific assembler instructions for

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > S/390: add Bastian Blank S/390: remove Gerhard Tonn, he stepped back Bastian -- But Captain -- the engines can't take this much longer! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: coreutils 5.97-5.2

2007-01-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 01:20:10AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Looking at the build logs, I see the test pwd-long failed on > s-390. I need help diagnosing the problem, and was wondering if > someone could help getting this resolved. The relevant bug report is #380552, which was cl

Re: powertweak 0.99.5-16 on s390

2007-03-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:33:53PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > According to buildd.debian.org[1] powertweak 0.99.5-16 was built > successfully for s390 over a month ago but the packages have still not > appeared in the archive. Could you please have a look and see what's > going on there? Accordin

Re: Fdasd RAID partition ID

2007-06-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:23:44AM -0400, Reinaldo wrote: > does anyone know what is the ID of the RAID partition type in fdasd? There is none. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: s390 Etch install problem

2007-09-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:34:39AM -0700, GaryR wrote: > I have purchased the Etch s390 DVD's and am having a problem with the > installer. Which DVD's? Installation from optical media should work but is mostly untested. > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > No filesystem could mount roo

Re: s390 Etch install problem

2007-09-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:28:09PM -0700, GaryR wrote: > Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram0 ip=off ro debian-installer/ > locale=C This is wrong. Neither root= nor ip= is listed in the supplied parmfile. The content is: | ro debian-installer/locale=C > checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (

Re: s390 Etch install problem

2007-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:04:00PM -0700, GaryR wrote: > Well, something IS bizarrely wrong. I get the same error. Is there > something wrong with the disk I have allocated for root? It is a > minidisk of 1000 cylinders on a real 3390 Mod 3. I CMS formatted it, > and did a "RESERVE LNX200 MDISK

Re: s390x (64 bits) support on Debian Etch

2007-09-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:42:17PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha wrote: > [Please CC me and Ronaldo, we're not subscribed to this list] Please set Mail-Followup-To in the mails. > I am helping to asses the viability of running Zope/Plone on Debian > GNU/Linux Etch in an IBM zSeries. I've searched the re

Re: s390x vs. s390

2008-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:29:20AM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: > one of our buildd reports s390x instead of s390 for 'uname -m'. Am I > correct that both architectures have a 32 bit userland and not 64 bit? Yes. The correct way to determine the debian architecture is dpkg-architecture, not uname.

Re: s390x vs. s390

2008-01-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:19:22PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 11:05 AM, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The correct way to determine the debian architecture is > > dpkg-architecture, not uname. > But a software that is portable to man

libc6/s390 - __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex->__data.__owner == 0' failed.

2008-05-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: libc6 Version: 2.7-10 Severity: important On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:34:12AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > the build failure on s390 is unexpected; is it possible to extract a > test case? | java: pthread_mutex_lock.c:71: __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex->__data.__owner == 0' fai

Re: Bug#474724: [DRE-maint] RC bug #474724

2008-05-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:08:35PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > So we would only have to get (and I'm sorry, I'm completely lost in > > this area) the proper CPU string for s390 and add it here. Blindly > > asking Google makes me believe the proper string for the submitter's > > environment (

Re: Bug#474724: [DRE-maint] RC bug #474724

2008-05-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:51:19PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Linux/s390 uses s390 and s390x. But the correct way on a Debian system > is to use dpkg-architecture outside and the architecture specific > defines like __s390__ inside the compiler. The following seems to work. | #i

Re: FCP problem on Debian s390 hardware

2008-06-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:35:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Quite probably it will need some extentions to support FCP, but I think it > should be relatively straightforward. If you figure out what/how, please > send a patch (by opening a wishlist bug report against the > sysconfig-hardware pac

Re: Debian 4.0r3 for s/390, network install problem

2008-06-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:05:35AM -0700, Ventura wrote: > The web log I have: > Jun 28 13:57:00 anna[936]: WARNING **: no packages for kernel in > archive > Have anybody ever had this problem or have any idea ??? You probably use an old installer image. This images are updated for new kernels. Fe

Re: Installation Help on Z9

2008-08-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:59:59PM -0400, THOMAS DELANY wrote: > Can anyone out there give me a little nudge in the right direction for > getting Debian running on a Z9 in an LPAR? > > I have tried both Etch and Lenny without any success. I am trying to > install from a tape image that I can IPL.

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:10:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This works just fine in Etch, but fails in Lenny. A device cannot be taken > offline dynamically. I fail to see what s390-tools or the chccwdev tools have to do with this problem. >

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:34:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's possible that I may have reported this bug against the wrong > package. chccwdev is part of the s390-tools package. And chccwdev fails. > But the actual cause of the problem may be elsewhere. You always showed direct usage

Re: Problem with new OSA in HiperSocket mode on Debian

2008-10-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:24:59PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have something to go up automatically an interface OSA from Guest Lan > Hipersocket, in Debian on System z. Please show the output of "hwup ccw 0.0.0800". Maybe there is a bug as this should already correctly set it online. B

Re: Problem with new OSA in HiperSocket mode on Debian

2008-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:31:54AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The version of sysconfig-hardware is 0.0.5 and my Kernel version is 2.6.18 > - 64bits Maybe the same problem, please grab sysconfig-hardware from Lenny. Bastian -- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. --

Re: Problem with new OSA in HiperSocket mode on Debian

2008-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:31:46AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > debian:~# hwup ccw 0.0.0800 > Configuring device 0.0.0800: already configured. > /etc/sysconfig/scripts/hardware/hwup-ccw-group: line 69: echo: write > error: Operation not permitted Which version of sysconfig-hardware is this?

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